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Description:Local events in the village of Collieston, Aberdeenshire - an auction sale, the preparation of the local fish dish "speldings" and the rolling of Easter eggs.

Nan Taggart and her mother both keen cinematographers, members of Aberdeen Cine Society. Large collection of family film. Taggart family owned a granite yard up until 1956 when they sold up, bought a farm at Marywell on Deeside and moved from the city to the rural life. Both mother, Nannie, and daughter Nan, chronicled the early years of their new lives on the farm on film. Nan Taggart and cousin Glen Ross interviewed about the films on THE WAY IT WAS, pc Grampian TV, Tx Oct/Nov '94.